There are millions of hungry people throughout the world.
That girl is always hungry.
The prisoners' families were hungry for more information.
They were hungry to learn more.
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Here’s how Blum describes the process of turning Schneider into a company able to move at the speed of its energy-hungry customers.—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026 The nod to Star Wars is intentional, and the landscape does seem like a new frontier—representing not just Meta’s stratospheric AI ambitions, but the financial, energy-hungry reality of building the infrastructure that underpins the AI boom.—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026 Amid the doom and gloom of news coverage, audiences are hungry for wholesome feel-good content like animal videos.—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 Prior to the spread of Christianity, there were no public hospitals in the Roman world; no orphanages, poorhouses, or old persons’ homes; no government assistance to help those in need or private charities to minister to the poor, homeless, and hungry.—Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hungry
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English hungrig; akin to Old English hungor
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of hungry was
before the 12th century